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Test Your Mates
Here are a few questions to
test your knowledge of nautical
distances and speed.:
n How deep is a fathom?
n How far is a nautical mile?
n One degree of latitude equals
how many nautical miles?
n When you say the yacht
traveled at 10 knots, what does
that mean? What is a knot?
ANSWERS on page 2.

SO MUCH TO SEE: Stew Whitney Fair of M/Y Current Issue rode her bicycle more than
4,200 miles last summer in an adventure that changed her life.
PHOTO/LUCY REED

Stew takes her mettle out for a ride
By Lucy Chabot Reed
Stew Whitney Fair used to drink.
Living in the art and entertainment
scene in New York and Los Angeles,
partying was a big part of her life.
When she got into yachting a few
years ago, she fit right in, always ready
for a night out with her mates.
One night camping in Utah with her
best friend, they decided to ride bicycles
across the United States. Never mind
that neither one of them owned a bike
or that her friend, Promise, had never
even learned how to ride one.
“It was nothing more than beers at
a campfire and my friend said let’s do
this,” said Fair, a tall, slender woman

with bright eyes and a quick smile. “I
didn’t put a whole lot of thought into it.
It wasn’t ‘why?’; it was ‘why not?’.”
Then in October of 2011, freshly 30
and with this adventure looming in her
future, she stopped drinking.
“With my free time, I was always
going out,” she said. “It wasn’t fun
anymore, drinking, cutting loose. I
needed a lifestyle change.”
In yachting just a year, she left the
88-foot Westport M/Y Seas the Moment
and flew to Las Vegas the following May.
Two weeks of training with Promise and
they flew to Oregon to begin a summer
on two wheels, riding the TransAmerica

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Answers to the quiz on page 1:
n A fathom is about 6 feet deep.
n A nautical mile is one 60th of 1
degree, or 6,076.1 feet, or basically 6,000
feet. A mile over land is 5,280 feet.
n One degree of latitude equals 60
nautical miles.
n One knot is one nautical mile per
hour., about 1.15 statute miles per hour.
10 knots is 10 nautical miles in one hour.
(On inland bodies of fresh water, vessels
travel in miles per hour.)

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While the extreme bike-riding
adventure fits her personality, having
Bicycle Trail from Astoria, Ore., to
done it has given her back much more
Yorktown, Va., 4,233 miles. It took them than it cost in blisters and sores.
90 days.
“This trip changed my life,” she said,
Fair said she faced a lot of resistance
tears welling in her eyes. “I proved to
from family and friends. Though her
myself that I can do anything I set my
parents supported the ride, others told
mind to. … Why waste time thinking
her she was crazy. “You’re not a cyclist,”
about it? If you have a goal, put it in
they’d say. “You’re not an athlete. What
your mind, visualize it and make it
makes you think you can do this?”
happen. It’s just that simple.”
“I kept thinking ‘I’m going to do
And coupled with her decision to
this; you’re just adding fuel to the fire’,”
stop drinking, it’s also powerful stuff.
she said. “It might take us five or six
“I don’t think I would have done this
months, but we’re going to do it.”
trip if I hadn’t stopped drinking.”
Fair kept a detailed
journal of her trip, complete
with photos and videos.
She shared her funny,
often irreverent blog posts
with family and friends at
MyFirstSoberSummer.com.
She has recently made her
posts live, sharing one a
day with followers of the
CrazyGuyOnABike.com
site, where it is the featured
blog this week.
Back in yachting now
and solo stew on the 90-foot
Burger M/Y Current Issue
in the Yacht & Brokerage
Show, she’s not sure what
the future holds. And she
likes it that way.
“I’ve had a storage unit
in New York for the past
10 years while I’ve been
NO SECOND THOUGHTS: Fair and her friend set off on traveling,” she said. “People
their ride without wondering why. The adventure say how can you do that?
empowered her to follow her dream. PHOTO/LUCY REED But to me, I see them and
say how can you do that?”
Finally, she asked a guy in her bike
She plans to visit Australia and wants
shop in New York if he thought she was
to hike the Appalachian Trail. This fall,
crazy.
she hopes to take acting classes in New
“Absolutely not,” he told her. “Anyone York, improv and comedy. Her dream in
can do it. Maybe you only ride 20 miles
life is to work on Saturday Night Live.
or 40 miles a day, but you can do it.”
“Why not?” she said with a smile.
After that, the trip was a go.
“Every palm reader and psychic and
“I’m an extremist,” Fair admitted.
fortune teller I’ve ever talked to told me
“If I’m going to ride my bike, I’m not
I’ll probably figure it out later in life, but
going to do it across one state, I’m going that’s OK because I’m really enjoying
across the country. Either I drink or I
the ride.”
don’t drink.
Lucy Chabot Reed is editor of The
“Sometimes I wish I had more
Triton. Comments are welcome at
balance, but if I did, I wouldn’t have
lucy@the-triton.com.
done some amazing things.”

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Where are you taking the boat
this spring?
After the show ends today, most
of the captains and crew surveyed
yesterday said they were heading to
their South Florida homeport or a Ft.
Lauderdale shipyard. We’ve done this
survey several years now and that
tends to be the answer after South
Florida boat shows.
So this year I asked where
the yacht was headed after that,
especially for the rest of the spring.
The largest group of yachts is
staying put in South Florida, waiting
for the call there’s been an offer.
But almost as many are heading
to the Bahamas, either for charters or
the owner’s private use. Here’s hoping
there are more owners and buyers
wanting to go have fun this spring.
– Photos and data
Lucy Chabot Reed
Stew
Mariana Cecato
M/Y Shalimar
118-foot Benetti
“We’re going to
Ft. Lauderdale to
do some work and
then heading to the
Bahamas for a charter.”

Capt. David Marks
M/Y Cassiopeia
105-foot HJB
“We may possibly
take the family to the
Bahamas, or we may
be in the Palm Beach
show. We’re standing
by to stand by to
stand by.”
Capt. Kay Marschke
M/Y Dancing Milly III
92-foot Argors
“The owner passed
away so we’ll be
staying here in case it
sells. We may go to the
Palm Beach show next
month.”

an you tell which yachts are pictured here given just a hint of their
names? All the yachts are in the show on the docks off Collins Avenue.
Perhaps you know them from your travels. If not, go stretch your legs and
see if you can find them. Give us your guesses on our Facebook page:
facebook.com/tritonnews.

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DOING THE CREW THING: Keeping warm and smiling

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ith overnight lows in the 40s, crew at the Yacht and Brokerage
Show yesterday pulled out their nice yacht jackets and
warm beverages. Crystal clear skies and blustery winds made for
an interesting day, but at least the chamois weren’t needed.
PHOTOS/DAVID and LUCY REED, TOM SERIO

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And yesterday finally felt like a boat show, with people on the docks, and no clouds or rain to remind us that Mother
Nature can be difficult.“We need five days like this,” one business owner said.“The boat show needs it, the industry
needs it, the owners need it, and the boats need it.”
PHOTO/LUCY REED

Though he smiles, Capt. Jason
Tellinghuisen of M/Y Carpe Diem II
was pretty bummed when he awoke
Friday morning to find his bicycle
had been stolen off the dock. The
thieves left just his snipped cable
behind.
PHOTO/TOM SERIO